Since the Renaissance, a concept called ‘progress’ has been baked into our society. Progress – founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That’s what separates us from the beasts.
We have freedom to experiment as an artiste – unlike lead heroes.
We used to do four or five films at a time and were not able to experiment with too many things. But, the heart was in the right place and everybody worked passionately. We had wonderful directors like Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor.
The euro is… a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.
I’m at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don’t want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.
I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don’t nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn’t that hard at all.
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that’s really fun for me. It’s like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.
Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it’s not permanent. If I didn’t like my colour, I’d just change it.
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
I don’t like it when filmmakers say, ‘Just come like this, sir.’ I like to experiment with my makeup. I wish more filmmakers let me do that.
The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.
Everybody wants to experiment, wants to explore. You should hear me at karaoke. I can sing anything you throw at me. I can do a good Dave Grohl.
The concept of ‘Blue’ is to transport its listeners to a different world with music. And I chose to release a full-length album because it enables me to experiment with many different production styles, not just a single sound, and take listeners on a journey.
I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I’ve done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn’t sound forced. Maybe that’s because it’s all music that I listened to growing up, and it’s all music that I love.
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.
I don’t walk into the lab in the morning thinking, ‘I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.’ I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
I am a versatile actor and ready to experiment.
Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they’ll find a way to wear something if they like it.
All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system – I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
I think that the Punjabi film industry is growing and is keen to experiment with different genres.
Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!
Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.
Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas – ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.
I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it’s capable of, what it’s not capable of.
I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.
What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco – give some time to the tech community.
I would experiment with porridge – make porridge pancakes, fry porridge – and so friends started calling me ‘Porridge.’ But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.
Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.
Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to keep the metaphor of home as garden in your consciousness.
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.
I think that if you’re doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.
As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we’ll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.
One scientist will interpret data one way, another in another way. One scientist may feel that an experiment is valid, another feels it’s invalid. That’s why scientists have discussions and put forward their opinions in conferences and papers.
I see my whole 20s as a massive experiment. So were my teens. I think the problem is that we’re not encouraged to experiment; we’re encouraged to decide and choose, be singular and focused. You can’t be that until you experiment. You don’t know what’s going to work until you try it.
There’s nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I’ve got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I’m taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues – a coal, gas and smoker – so I can experiment a lot.
Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.
Because of how much movies cost, it’s dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
Britain’s great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children, so I would never advise anyone against university if they’re going for the right reasons.
Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.
It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients.
My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I’ve got three girls.
I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.
The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
It’s fun to experiment like Rihanna, but if you start tweezing brow hairs excessively, I can guarantee they won’t grow back.
I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn’t want to be afraid to blend and experiment.
Fashion allows you to experiment and express yourself even if you are not superb with clothes.
I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called ‘The Mad Professor’.
